I was looking at "seamless mobility" tonight a phrase that appears to have captured mobile operators and hardware manufacturers leaping into the world of "liquid media" and "on the go experiences". I can't help thinking this reeks of a "couch potato strategy for mobility". Seems like an oxymoron. Consider instead... as a useful reminder.

What is important to people? Mainly, we communicate with each other. We communicate useful get-through-the-day facts and longer range planning. We gossip and small-talk to maintain or strengthen social relationships. And we produce and consume art to fulfill some deeply ingrained need to find resonance with other people. (Oh yes, and pornography, which is kind of in a class by itself.) So far, the big things in IT have all been direct reflections of those social needs: the Web, e-mail, instant messaging, cell phones, Napster/KaZaA, Skype, “social networking”, iTunes, video-on-demand, etc. I expect this web of communication to mature into something in which reputation and recommenation are pervasive — Daniel Lemire’s blog

Now is iTunes or TV on your phone really the big idea?